{"product_id":"political-anthropology-paperback","title":"Political Anthropology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelmuth Plessner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePolitical Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e (originally published in 1931 as \u003ci\u003eMacht und menschliche Natur\u003c\/i\u003e), Helmuth Plessner considers whether politics-conceived as the struggle for power between groups, nations, and states-belongs to the essence of the human. Building on and complementing ideas from his \u003ci\u003eLevels of the Organic and the Human\u003c\/i\u003e (1928), Plessner proposes a genealogy of political life and outlines an anthropological foundation of the political. In critical dialogue with thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, and Martin Heidegger, Plessner argues that the political relationships cultures entertain with one other, their struggle for acknowledgement and assertion, are expressions of certain possibilities of the openness and unfathomability of the human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Translated into English for the first time, and accompanied by an introduction and an epilogue that situate Plessner's thinking both within the context of Weimar-era German political and social thought and within current debates, this succinct book should be of great interest to philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists interested in questions of power and the foundations of the political.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHELMUTH PLESSNER\u003c\/b\u003e (1892 -1985) was a leading figure in the field of philosophical anthropology. He was the author of more than thirteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Community: A Critique of Social Radicalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Levels of the Organic and the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHEIKE DELITZ\u003c\/b\u003e is a Privatdozent in general sociology and social theory at the University of Bamberg. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBergson-Effekte: Aversionen und Attraktionen im französischen soziologischen Denken\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Bergson Effect: Aversions and Attractions in French Sociological Thought\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOACHIM FISCHER\u003c\/b\u003e is an honorary professor of sociology at TU Dresden and president of the Helmuth Plessner Society. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophische Anthropologie: Eine Denkrichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Anthropology: A Current of Thought in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e) and \u003ci\u003eExzentrische Positionalität: Studien zu Helmuth Plessner\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEccentric Positionality: Studies on Helmuth Plessner\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBERT SEYFERT\u003c\/b\u003e is an Akademischer Rat (senior researcher\/lecturer) at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDas Leben der Institutionen: Zu einer allgemeinen Theorie der Institutionen\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Life of Institutions: Toward a General Theory of Institutions\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNILS F. SCHOTT\u003c\/b\u003e, the James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, is a widely published translator of work in the humanities, including Vladimir Jankélévitch's \u003ci\u003eHenri Bergson\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47577782550749,"sku":"9780810138001","price":67.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/MkNPTGxSZVZRdE9iVFhlMmdqcGxmUT09.webp?v=1773489363","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/political-anthropology-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}